Clevite, Inc. was a Cleveland , Ohio based manufacturing company, founded as the Cleveland Graphite Bronze Company . The company was a leading producer of Babbit bearings and a significant US government defense contractor. The bearings were licensed in Britain to Vandervell Products Ltd ; W. A. Robotham of Rolls-Royce said that "it was an exceedingly difficult task for Tony Vandervell ... knowing the American company well".
5-645: In 1952 the Cleveland Graphite Bronze Company absorbed the Brush Development Company and Brush Labs in a merger. In 1953 it acquired 51% of Transistor Products Inc., and with other acquisitions such as the German Intermetall in 1955 (a company founded in 1952 by pioneering German physicist and developer of the first "European" transistor Herbert Mataré , and subsequently sold to telecommunications giant ITT in 1965) developed
10-492: A semiconductor division. By 1959, over one-third of Clevite's sales were in electronics, split over four units: Clevite Transistor Prods.; Brush Instruments; Clevite Electronic Components; and Clevite Ordnance. Clevite won defense contracts for some of its products and opened a new ordnance plant in 1967. Clevite purchased Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1960 and continued operating it until selling it (again to ITT as it had done with Intermetall) in 1968. In 1969, Clevite
15-438: Was absorbed into Clevite in 1952. The business was founded in 1919 by Alfred L. Williams as Brush Labs to develop products that used piezoelectric crystals. Associates spun off the Brush Development Company in 1930 with piezoelectric phonograph pickups as its main product. Later it began manufacturing wire recorders , microphones , and speakers . During World War II, Vice President for Research Dr. Semi Joseph Begun
20-571: Was acquired by Gould-National Batteries , a firm one-quarter its size. It adopted the Gould name in the hopes of having better brand recognition in the marketplace. This article related to a manufacturing company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Brush Development Company Brush Development Company was a manufacturer of audio , phonographic products and magnetic recording technologies located in Cleveland , Ohio . It
25-672: Was awarded a contract from the US National Defense Research Council for research on a substitute for stainless steel wire used in wire recorders by the military. Post-war, Brush manufactured a dictation recorder in 1946, and released the first USA built tape recorder in 1947 with the Brush Soundmirror. In 1950, Brush built the Model BL-206 and BL-216 Multichannel Oscillographs, and associated Model BL-932 DC Amplifiers. In 1952 Brush Development Company merged with
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